· Private foundation
The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $570k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARCUS SCHOOL | $695,000 |
| RANDOM LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $350,000 |
| OOSTBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT | $164,270 |
| PORT WASHINGTON-SAUKVILLE SCHOOLS | $145,000 |
| NORTHERN OZAUKEE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $96,000 |
| ELKHART LAKE GLENBEULAH SCHOOL | $91,871 |
| DIVINE SAVIOR CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $73,076 |
| OOSTBERG SCHOOL DISTRICT | $44,000 |
| RANDOM LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $44,000 |
| NORTHERN OZAUKEE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $44,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $42,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 34% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- OCOZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $405k · revenue +80%
RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC5× · 2018–2023 · $238k · revenue +8%
LAKESHORE NATURAL RESOURCE PARTNERSHIP INC3× · 2021–2023 · $162k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- OCOOSTBERG CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $459k
- LULAKELAND UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $56k · revenue -12%
- BOBells of St Mary's Incone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -88%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
To coordinate actions for protecting and restoring the health of owasco lake and its watershed to ensure that owasco lake will serve as a source of public drinking water, a recreational asset, an economic driver, and an important natural…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
Protect and restore Wisconsin's natural heritage and ecology through active leadership, education and stewardship
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riveredge Nature Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cg At Play Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE NATURAL RESOURCE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE BROUGHTON ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RESTORING LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Bells of St Mary's Inc ↗
- Who funds CG AT PLAY INC ↗
- Who funds Mequon Nature Preserve Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE COUNTY FARM BUREAU COOPERAT ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LUXEMBOURG AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAUKVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · West Bend Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Cedarburg Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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